Hi
To check, is this definitely one of the RNLI's charity shops as well as a lifeboat station?
way/848908390

Hi
Did you manage to check the location?

The last I checked, that box was welded shut. Did you physically observe it or was it from Mapillary?

Please don't create linear platforms when there are already polygon platforms.

That's interesting.
I don't suppose you took a photo of the amended sign?
Did it say who had given permission?
Did the paths at the Northern end have similar notices?
Could you amend the tag to this:
osm.wiki/Access_provisions_in_the_United_Kingdom#Permissive_bridleways

Ah, so just a local name.
As it's not in the OS OpenRoads database, could you amend the tag to this, please:

osm.wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_name)

Hi
Where did you get the name of Longwood Lane from?

way/159967970

These are barrier=stile
barrier=stile

You need turnstile?

Are the validators not on the turnstiles?

These aren't stiles
node/11745256883

amenity=ticket_validator

There's already a railway station.
node/6606087119

way/1225772244

(My replies are asterisked)

The fact that the operator calls it a halt?

* The name is irrelevant to defining an object, it could be named 'Joe Bloggs'. Naming it 'halt' doesn't define what a halt is.

It's a common pattern on preserved railways to distinguish between "full service" stations catering to tourists (i.e. with a car park) and "only a halt" where the only expected customers are walkers.

* "With a car park". See? Yet another subjective, personal interpretation of the meaning of the word 'halt'. Classifying all railway stations as 'railway=station' & adding fact-based sub tags, such as 'usage=tourism' & 'request_stop=yes' etc. removes ambiguity, making the OSM database more accurate.

But frankly, the definition of a halt is beside the point.

* No it's not. The very basis of OSM is how objects are defined. The whole wiki is a list of definitions. That 'halt' is provably subjective sits badly within OSM.

My irritation is with overriding the work done by local mappers based on individual opinion.

* It was undertaken after discussion on Talk-Gb
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2020-January/024096.html
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2020-February/thread.html#24097

* Some concurred, some gave additional details, no one objected.

* Changing them from station to halt was performed unilaterally, overriding the work performed by contributors.

It doesn't sit well with a collaborative project.

* It was a collaboration.

* I note the Wikipedia pages describe them as 'railway stations'

From what I can gather (people don't reply to my enquiries), the data in the graphic was invented by a few German rail enthusiasts. I've struggled to find any information that it's a wide spread interpretation (even in Germany). In the GB discussions no one had any comprehension of it. It's ridiculous to determine the busyness/size of a station by "where trains can change from one track to another track."
There's so much wrong with that graphic:
Misunderstands what a siding is.
Almost all (all?) multi-track stations have crossovers nearby.
A nearby junction has no bearing whatsoever.

You'd have thought this page would mention it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_railway_station_categories

@phodgkin What is the officially agreed demarcation line between a halt & a station? Name one that you perceive as a halt, but if the criteria you use to determine it increased slightly would make it a station? Likewise, name a station that would become a halt if your criteria reduced?

Hi
The Destructor Bridge is a truss & Windsor Br is definitely not a hump (beam).

bridge:structure=*

Hi
I saw a Air Ambulance Charity sign over the old Lloyds Bank, but the shelves were empty. Do you know if it's about to open or is it losing?
https://snipboard.io/Cmlsxj.jpg

Hi
node/10146740462#map=18/51.66540/-3.14223

There is already a railway=station node for this station.

Hi
Goog to see FHRS being updated, but instead of deleting out of dates ones could you change them to disabled:fhrs:id instead.

It's useful for checking verifying old retailers.

Hi
Instead of just removing the URLs, why not search for an updated link, or if it's a case the business has closed down, remove all the relevant tags?

Hi
What rule in Osmose informed you to remove area tags from platforms?

What is "not:ref:GB:the_circuit"?

Hi
There's already a railway station.

way/71489225